Tenova has been contracted through its subsidiary Tenova Inc. for the turnkey supply of a roller-hearth STC (short time cycle) furnace. The 26-metric-ton batch furnace will be shipped to Grand Blanc Processing’s wire processing facility in Holly, Mich., where it will be used to spheroidize anneal and stress relieve the company’s wire products. It will include Daido Steel’s advanced nitrogen control technology, which will reduce nitrogen consumption by up to 30% per cycle and reduce fuel consumption by 2% per cycle. Tenova will also design and supply three product-cooling tables and the complete control and automation package. Furnace start-up is expected to take place by the end of 2022.

More than 2,600 international exhibitors presented their innovations to 69,500 trade visitors from 130 countries at the recent concurrent staging of Wire 2016 and Tube 2016.

The automotive industry may not be the largest sales market for tube manufacturers, but it is indeed an important one.

The next concurrent staging of Wire 2016, International Wire and Cable Trade Fair, and Tube 2016, International Tube and Pipe Trade Fair, will take place from April 4-8 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Wire and the resulting products, such as springs, screws and cables, are necessary for technical systems to function. However, products made by the wire and wire-processing industry also play a major role in everyday life – paperclips, ballpoint pen springs, key chains and power cables, for example.

Aterian Investment Partners, a leading private equity firm, announced that one of its affiliates acquired Johnstown Wire Technologies, the largest independent producer of high-quality, value-added carbon and alloy wire in North America.

Thermcraft Inc. has been awarded a U.S. patent for its LQF technology.